Rennie, Christy(Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre:, )

In this paper I offer a reading of South African artist, Berni Searle's works About to forget (2005) and On either side (2005) in relation to French psychoanalyst and theorist, Julia Kristeva's conception of abjection. In ...

The clothing industry in South Africa is seen as a
conventional industry with characteristics such as: labour
intensive with low levels of qualification; low salaries; low
potential for investment in research and ...

The proliferation of complex problems in a world of increasing indeterminacy, not least within developing contexts, places new demands on stakeholders, educators, students, practitioners and theorists.
A user, or customer, ...

The proliferation of complex problems in a world of increasing indeterminacy,
not least within developing contexts, places new demands on stakeholders,
educators, students, practitioners and theorists.
A user, or customer, ...

This paper aims to discuss interior designers and architects understandings of sustainable
design and barriers that influence their sustainable design practices. The paper reflects on
findings that were obtained from a ...

There is a major emphasis on the education of the South African people to become responsible, participatory and reflective citizens that contribute to an emerging democracy. However, the government of SA is faced with many ...

This paper aims to present an approach to design thinking and teaching that takes the students and lecturers of design disciplines outside of the studio and university campus into contexts of deep complexity – informal ...

In 2008 Gerry Human, the chief creative officer of Ogilvy South Africa, was invited to exhibit pieces from his creative career as an alumnus of the University of Johannesburg (the former TWR) at the FADA Gallery. The ironic ...

Cultural Action for Change began in 2000 as a joining of artists, educators, and student-researchers to assess sustainability and address the impact of HIV within Phumani Paper; a government-funded poverty alleviation ...

This paper centres around a creative design project for first-year fashion design students. This project was informed by (1) the theoretical underpinnings of design thinking, (2) a human-­centred approach to design and (3) ...

As pressure to access African resources and explore new market opportunities
increases in light of a diminishing Western resource base, saturated markets and
troubled economies; it is a priority for African designers to ...

In this article, I propose correlations between my ambivalent position as a white, English speaking, second ­generation Jewish female living in post­ apartheid, post-colonial South Africa and debates within South African ...

The global economy which is enhanced through
changing technologies of all types is
pressurizing organisations to improve
productivity of their business processes.
Competition is forcing organisations to focus
their ...

The merger of Higher Education Institutions
(HEI’s) has created monolithic organisations of inefficiency and
ineffectiveness in administrative and academic processes. It was
the result of mismatched and outdated processes ...

In this paper the movie, The Matrix, is used as a reference to the current situation
experienced by the interior design profession in South Africa. In particular, reference is made to the
scene where the reaction leader ...

How do I see myself -as I am: As shifting, fluid, resisting and accommodating; an integrated identity by negotiating what is me with others through a series of events that I respond to as they happen, as I make them happen ...

Human-Centred Design proposes the method of In-context Immersion or meeting people where they live, work
and socialise as a method to gain new insights and opportunities for the designer (IDEO, 2013). This method as ...

This paper reflects on research conducted on the role of interior designers in retail design within the South African retail sector. Based on three leading corporate retailers, the paper explores the contribution of interior ...